Management of problem employees; identification, tools, legalities,
strategies, and tricks for the government supervisor.

Corum, Michael.

Dewey Publications

2007

130 pages

$55.00

Paperback

JK850

Corum, a trainer and consultant, details strategies, games, ruses,
counterpunches, and dirty tricks to use when dealing with disciplinary
and performance problems in the federal civil service. Writing in plain
language with a sense of humor, he describes the most common types of
problem employees encountered in government service, dividing them into
categories of conduct problems (the guerilla, the sociopath), absentee problems, performance problems (the sane incompetent versus the
delusional incompetent) and mixed problems (the alcoholic, the victim).
He examines the tools available for dealing with them, such as formal
and informal disciplinary actions, and discusses the legalities of using
those tools. He then gives specific suggestions for dealing with each
type of problem employee. The readership for the book includes
supervisors and human resource professionals in government agencies.
There is no subject index.

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